Direct indirect Objects
Terms
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- IO: none DO: card
- Mitch sent his valentine card to the girl with brown hair
- IO: Elise DO: bubblegum
- Who sent Elise that awful bubblegum?
- IO: treasurer DO: dues
- On my honor I will pay the class treasurer my dues
- IO: team DO: uniforms
- Who will buy the team new uniforms?
- IO: sister DO: truck
- Without a fuss the little boy gave his sister the red dump truck
- DO: body, tail, a set
- The manticor had the body of a lion, the tail of a serpent, and a triple set of teeth.
- direct object
- A word that receives the action of its verb. It is always a noun or pronoun. It answers the questions What? or Whom? and must come after the action verb
- IO: us DO: ride
- On Friday he offered us a ride home from the club
- indirect object
- A word that receives the direct object. It has to come after an action verb and before the direct object. Must always be a noun or pronoun and answers the questions to whom? for whom? or to what?
- IO: friend DO: wink
- From behind her book Sonya gave her best friend a knowing wink